Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur |

Email: archana@hss.iitkgp.ac.in

I am trained in rural sociology, focusing on community-based natural resource management and common studies. Some of my interests also lie in allied areas like environmental sociology, law and society, sociology of science and technology, and gender and technology. I work predominantly on agricultural practices, rural development, and food provisioning. However, I also acknowledge the rural-urban continuum and focus on the urban domain, broadening my research perspective. Recently I have been working on cultural commons, civic food networks, and smart cities. I am interested in potential collaborations across different disciplines in allied areas.

All Publications

The courtesan project and the tawa ifs cultural commons Chanda S., Patnaik A., Chatterjee S.C. By International Journal of the Commons 15 195-205 (2021)
Inclusive management of cities through the perspective of Actor-Network Theory Patnaik A., Mullick M. By 4S Conference - (2021)
Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems Patnaik A., Jongerden J. By Social processes of sharing and collecting seeds as regenerative agricultural practices 289-303 (2020)
Food Sovereignty, Seed Sovereignty and Marginalised Community: A Case from Telangana, India Patnaik A. By IV International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology on Challenges of 21st century: Democracy Environment, Inequalities, Intersectionality - (2021)
Culinary Commons for Creating an Inclusive Food System and Sustaining Alternative Food Network: A Case from Nawalgarh, India Srivastava Y., Patnaik A. By IV International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology on Challenges of 21st century: Democracy Environment, Inequalities, Intersectionality - (2021)
Difficulties of Reviving and Conserving Stigmatized Cultural Commons Chanda S., Patnaik A. By Knowledge Commons - (2021)
Civic Food Network and Food Security Amid Pandemic Patnaik A. By 4th APSAFE Symposium Supporting Sustainable Food Systems: Quality Food and Ethical Consumption 100-104 (2020)
Millet Mission of Odisha: Tribal communities, neglected crop and policies Patnaik A. By National Conference on Environment, Culture and Development: Discourses and Intersections - (2019)
Urban commoning in the Indian smart city: A case study of commons-as-interface within smart city Bhubaneshwar Mullick M., Patnaik A. By Urban Commons Conference - (2021)
Whose right to the COVID-ridden Indian smart city Patnaik A., Mullick M. By 46th All India Sociological Conference on Constitution, Citizenship and Minorities: Mapping 70 years of Indian Republic - (2021)